i must say I'm used to being inspected by the ladies… but this is the first time i've felt this way with a man.
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happy klapollo day! you know.. besides the two other klapollo days i made up as an excuse to draw more klapollo pftt happy people park day! first time i've felt this way with a man day! first meetings day! (it has many names alright pftt)
but ig an explanation since i see some people are confused adfdgd ok so. think of 6/15 as kind of like whatever date unnecessary feelings day is for nrmt and 9/2 and 2/9 as the 7/3 + 3/7 days equivalent
like they're all klapollo days and i've no qualms about you if for you their first meeting is their day (ngl i did have like a sudden anxious thought like "oh god was i too annoying by imposing different klapollo days???" gfdg oops)
but yeahg! hope you have fun looking at whatever it is i put in the background boxes! and i know this is a klapollo piece but trucy might be my favorite part here pftt <33
I love Apollo’s relationship with the Wrights in aa4. It is sooo funny. Found family if the family fucking sucked. Manipulative little sister who staged her own abduction and made you cry for sillies (and a murder trial but I digress. She would’ve done it anyways.) And a weird guy who is less like your dad and more like your mom’s weird boyfriend who keeps calling you champ because he doesn’t know your name. I love all three of them dearly.
I didn’t write the day on the piece itself bc there wasn’t really a good free space to put it
Marked up version where I explain all the little details and symbols under the cut!! (also I apologize for the fact that tumblr absolutely decimated the quality and made things blurry 😭)
I had originally written out the explanations for my friend whose only knowledge of Ace Attorney comes from my incessant ramblings and live reactions in our DMs as I play, but I didn’t want to have to type out my explanation, so I’m just including it here. I apologize if anything is unreadable 😭
The brilliant foreshadowing of Kalvier's flirty introduction
So everybody remembers Klavier’s introduction, right? It’s a fantastic way to introduce the character that could not be better. He shows up. He bends down, a la how not to talk to short people, and does the bi equivalent of smiling at someone checking you out and going, “Like what you see?”
Oh yeah. And then he leaves. As if he came to this crime scene purely to let you in. As if he didn’t have a reason for coming here in the first place. Just full on-
It’s great. 10/10. But see, there’s something that makes this introduction even better. Mainly, that it’s subtly foreshadowing the final case. Let me explain!
See, it’s important to note why Klavier starts flirting with Apollo. He didn’t just go up to him because he felt like it, there was a reason he decided to open the conversation that way. And it was because Apollo was staring.
A lot of people tend to forget, but the “first time I’ve felt this way with a man” isn’t referring to Klavier’s own emotions (He wrote a song called “My boyfriend is the prosecution’s witness,” I highly doubt this man has only had straight thoughts up till this point), it’s referring to Apollo’s gaze. The way Apollo is “inspecting” him.
Klavier assumes that Apollo is staring at him for the same reason 95% of women stare at him. Because he’s hot. And so, he flirts with him. Because this is Klavier, so of course he’s gonna flirt with the guy he thinks is checking him out.
The thing is. Apollo isn’t staring at him cause he’s hot. He’s staring at him because he looks like Mr. Gavin. He looks like Kristoph.
And that, right there, is your foreshadowing. Because in trial 4, there’s yet another moment where someone stares at Klavier and it’s mistaken for ogling his handsomeness. When, in reality, it’s because he looks like Kristoph.
When Vera Mishman starts staring at Klavier, Trucy says:
It’s because he’s handsome.
Before that, the first time it happens, what does Klavier say?
“…I’m used to being stared at by Fräuleins, believe me.” Just like how he’s, “used to being inspected by the ladies…”
In both cases they’re not staring at him because he’s hot. They’re staring at him because he looks like Kristoph. A brilliant little misdirection, all because of a little flirting.